uba

head

uba (possessable, IIb class pluriform, absolute tuba, R1 ruba, R2 tuba)

Nheengatu: uba

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *tup (“father”), from Proto-Tupian *t͡sup (“father”).
Cognate with Guaraní túva.

inh+

first cousin once removed
first cousin once removed

first cousin once removed (cousin of one's father)


aba

head

aba (possessable, IIa class pluriform, absolute taba, R1 raba, R2 saba)

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *rap, from Proto-Mawé-Guaraní *t͡sap, from Proto-Tupian *jap.
Cognate with Sateré-Mawé sap, Guaraní ague.


arara

Nheengatu: arara

→ Portuguese: arara

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *arar, from Proto-Tupian *arat. Doublet of ará.


urubu

Nheengatu: urubú

desctree

→ Portuguese: urubu
→ Catalan: urubú
→ English: urubu
 (see there for further descendants)

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *uruβu, from Proto-Tupian *urupˀu.
Cognate with Sateré-Mawé uruwu and Guaraní yryvu.

etymon

New World vulture (any vulture in the family Cathartidae)


gûyrá

Nheengatu: wirá

→ Brazilian Portuguese: uirá

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *wɨra.
Cognate with Mbyá Guaraní and Paraguayan Guaraní guyra.

cog

[…]ouyratin oour chèuè[…]

1614, Claude d'Abbeville, “De la mort de trois Indiens Topinamba qui eſtoient venus en France” (chapter LVII), in Hiſtoire de la Miſsion des Peres Capucins en L’Iſle de Maragnan et terres circonuoiſines [History of the Mission of the Capuchin Fathers in the Island of Maranhão and surrounding lands] (overall work in French), Paris: Imprimerie de François Huby, page 353:


nhandu

→ Portuguese: nandu, nhandu

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *janu.

Rhea americana
Rhea americana#Translingual


anũ

Nheengatu: anú

desctree

→ Portuguese: anu, anum, ani
→? English: ani

Crotophaga ani
Crotophaga ani#Translingual


kaûã

Nheengatu: wakawã

→ Brazilian Portuguese: acauã, acuã, cauã, uacauã
→ English: acauã

desc

→ Brazilian Portuguese: Cauã, Cauê, Kauã, Kauan, Kawan

Gabriel Soares de Sousa (1587) chapter LXXXV, in Noticia do Brasil (overall work in Portuguese), Salvador; republished as Francisco Adolpho de Varnhagen, editor, Tratado descriptivo do Brazil em 1587, Rio de Janeiro: Laemmert, 1851, page 234: “Oacaoam [Ûakaûã]”

Claude d'Abbeville (1614) chapter XXXIX, in Hiſtoire de la Miſsion des Peres Capucins en L’Iſle de Maragnan et terres circonuoiſines [History of the Mission of the Capuchin Fathers in the Island of Maranhão and surrounding lands] (overall work in French), Paris: Imprimerie de François Huby, page 233: “Chouä [Kaûã]”

Herpetotheres cachinnans
Herpetotheres cachinnans#Translingual

(North Tupi) laughing falcon (Herpetotheres cachinnans)


gûyratinga

Nheengatu: wirá-tinga

→ Brazilian Portuguese: Guiratinga

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *wɨratiŋ. By surface analysis, gûyrá (“bird”) + ting (“white”) + -a.
Cognate with Paraguayan Guaraní guyratĩ.


tukana

Nheengatu: tukana

→ French: toucan m (see there for further descendants)

→ New Latin: tucana, Tucana

→ Portuguese: tucano m (see there for further descendants)

Derived from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *tũkãn, from Proto-Tupian *jɨokãn.
Cognate with Kamayurá tukan, Mbyá Guaraní and Wayampi tukã.

etymon

Ramphastos toco
Ramphastos toco#Translingual


sabîá

→ Portuguese: sabiá

Cognate with Mbyá Guaraní havia and Paraguayan Guaraní havía.

thrush (any species of songbirds of the genus Turdus)


îabyru

Nheengatu: yaburú

desctree

→ Portuguese: jaburu, jabiru
→ English: jabiru

Jabiru mycteria
Jabiru mycteria#Translingual


îuriti

Nheengatu: yurutí

→ Portuguese: juriti

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *juriti.
Cognate with Guaraní jeruti.


migûá

Nheengatu: miwá

desctree

→ Portuguese: biguá
→ Dutch: bigua-aalscholver

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *miwa.
Cognate with Guaraní mbigua.

Phalacrocorax brasilianus
Phalacrocorax brasilianus#Translingual

neotropic cormorant (Phalacrocorax brasilianus)


kanindé

Nheengatu: kanindé

desc

Brazilian Portuguese: → canindé, → Cananéia, ⇒ arara-canindé

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *kanine
Cognate with Guaraní kaninde.

inh+

c. 1583, Joseph of Anchieta, Auto de São Lourenço [Play of Saint Lawrence], Niterói, page 62; republished in Eduardo de Almeida Navarro, transl., compiled by Maria de Lourdes de Paula Martins, Teatro, 2nd edition, São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 2006, →ISBN:

blue-and-yellow macaw
blue-and-yellow macaw


ararakanga

Nheengatu: ararakanga

→ New Latin: aracanga (learned)

→ English: aracanga (learned)

desctree

→ Portuguese: araracanga
→ English: araracanga

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *ararakaŋ. By surface analysis, arara (“macaw”) + akanga (“head”).


araruna

Nheengatu: araruna, arara-una

→ Portuguese: araruna, araraúna

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *ararun. By surface analysis, arara (“macaw”) + un (“dark”) + -a.

surf

Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus
Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus#Translingual

hyacinth macaw (Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus)


marakanã

Nheengatu: marakanã

→ Portuguese: maracanã

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *marakanã.
Cognate with Mbyá Guaraní marakana.


tukanusu

desc

→ Portuguese: tucanuçu, tucanaçu, tucano-açu, → tucano-grande (calque)

From tukana (“toco toucan”) + -usu (augmentative suffix).

af

João Capistrano de Abreu
w:João Capistrano de Abreu


tuindara

Nheengatu: suindara

desc

→ Brazilian Portuguese: suindara, suinara, suindá, tuindara, tuindá

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *t͡suinar.


urubutinga

/ʔuɾuβ̞uˈtĩŋa/

/ʔuɾuβ̞uˈtĩᵑɡa/

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *uruβutiŋ. By surface analysis, urubu (“vulture”) + ting (“white”) + -a.
Cognate with Guaraní yryvu tĩ.

surf

Sarcoramphus papa
Sarcoramphus papa#Translingual


gûyrapunga

desctree

→ Brazilian Portuguese: araponga, guiraponga, uiraponga, iraponga
→ English: araponga

[ɡʷɨ.ɾaˈpũ.ŋa]

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *wɨrapoŋ. By surface analysis, gûyrá (“bird”) + pong (“percussive”) + -a.
Cognate wirh Paraguayan Guaraní guyrapõ.

surf

bare-throated bellbird
bare-throated bellbird

bare-throated bellbird (Procnias nudicollis)


gûará

Nheengatu: wará

→ Portuguese: guará

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *wara.

Eudocimus ruber
Eudocimus ruber#Translingual

Warhaftige [Hiſtoria und] beſchꝛeibung eyner Landtſchafft der wilden nacketen/grimmigen menſchfreſſer leuthen/in der newenwelt America gelegen

w:True History: An Account of Cannibal Captivity in Brazil

Pero de Magalhães Gândavo
w:pt:Pero de Magalhães Gândavo

Hiſtoria da prouincia ſãcta Cruz a qui vulgarmẽte chamamos Brasil

Historia Naturalis Brasiliae
w:Historia Naturalis Brasiliae


gûyraîuba

desc

→ Portuguese: guirajuba, guarajuba, guarujuba, guaruba

/ɣʷɨɾaˈjuβa/

/ɣʷɨɾaˈʒuβa/

Guaruba guarouba
Guaruba guarouba#Translingual


îasanã

Nheengatu: yasanã

desctree

→ Portuguese: jaçanã
→ English: jacana
→ Finnish: jassana
→ Italian: jacana
→ Swedish: jaçana
→ Translingual: Jacana

Jacana jacana
Jacana jacana#Translingual


marakanãarara

Primolius maracana
Primolius maracana#Translingual


aîuru

→ Brazilian Portuguese: ajuru


aîurueté

desc

Brazilian Portuguese: → ajuruetê, → papagaio-verdadeiro (calque)

a‧îu‧ru‧e‧té

From aîuru (“amazon parrot”) + eté (“true”).

Amazona aestiva
Amazona aestiva#Translingual

turquoise-fronted amazon (Amazona aestiva)


îaku

Nheengatu: yakú

→ Brazilian Portuguese: jacu

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *jaku, from Proto-Tupian *waku.
Cognate with Guaraní jaku.

typical guan (any bird in the genus Penelope)


kereîûá

→ Brazilian Portuguese: crejoá

D. Aob querêjuâ coaracî çocé / Oberabae nungara, T. remimotara rupî / Acê moingoçára.

(Can we date this quote?), Antônio de Araújo, “Da criação do mundo, dos Anjos, & ſua cahida” (chapter II), in (Please provide the book title or journal name) (overall work in Old Tupi, Portuguese, and Latin), Lisbon, page 37v:

D. Like banded cotinga clothes that shine more than the sun, that make us be in accordance with God's will.


nhandugûasu

Brazilian Portuguese: → nandu-guaçu, → nandu-grande (calque)

Cognate with Guaraní ñandu guasu. By surface analysis, nhandu (“rhea”) + -gûasu (“big”).

surf

Rhea americana
Rhea americana#Translingual


tuîuîu

Nheengatu: tuyuyú

→ Brazilian Portuguese: tuiuiú

Ciconia maguari
Ciconia maguari#Translingual


arasari

Nheengatu: arasarí

desctree

→ Brazilian Portuguese: araçari
→ English: aracari, araçari

black-necked aracari (Pteroglossus aracari)


ypeka

Nheengatu: ipeka

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *ɨpek, from Proto-Tupian *ɨpekʲ.

Cairina moschata
Cairina moschata#Translingual

(strictly) Muscovy duck (Cairina moschata)


sapukaîa

Nheengatu: sapukaya

→ Brazilian Portuguese: sapucaia
→ English: sapucaia, sapucaya

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *t͡sapukaj.


sapukaîa

tlb

(Língua Geral Amazônica, Língua Geral Paulista)

Nheengatu: sapukaya


gûyrasapukaîa

From gûyrá (“bird”) + sapukaî (“to scream”) + -a.


îakurutu

Nheengatu: yakurutú

desc

→ Brazilian Portuguese: jacurutu, jucurutu

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani [Term?].
Cognate with Paraguayan Guaraní ñakurutũ.

inh+

Gabriel Soares de Sousa (1587) chapter LXXXVI, in Noticia do Brasil (overall work in Portuguese), Salvador; republished as Francisco Adolpho de Varnhagen, editor, Tratado descriptivo do Brazil em 1587, Rio de Janeiro: Laemmert, 1851, page 233: “Jucurutú [Îukurutu]”

Francisco Soares (1590–1596) “Dos passaros q' andaõ de noite”, in De alguãs Cousas mais notaueis do brasil e de alguñs costumes dos Indios [Of some of Brazil's most notable things and some Indian customs] (overall work in Portuguese), page 56; republished as Antônio Geraldo da Cunha, compiler, Coisas Notáveis do Brasil (Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa; 6), Rio de Janeiro: Instituto Nacional do Livro, 1966, page 141, line 1465: “Jacuritu [Îakurutu]”

anonymous author (1622) “Bufo, passaro”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica (overall work in Portuguese), Piratininga; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, volume 1, São Paulo: USP, 1953, page 60: “Jacurutû [Îakurutu]”

Georg Marcgrave, Willem Piso (1648) Historia Naturalis Brasiliae [Brazilian Natural History], Rerum Naturalium Historiae, book V, chapter V (overall work in Latin), Amsterdam: Elzevir, page 199: “Iacvrvtv [Îakurutu]”

South American great horned owl (Bubo virginianus nacurutu)


pepó

Nheengatu: pepú

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *pepo, from Proto-Tupian *pepʔo.


îakutinga

Nheengatu: yakú-tinga

desctree

→ Brazilian Portuguese: jacutinga
→ English: jacutinga

From îaku (“typical guan”) + ting (“white”) + -a.

af

Pipile jacutinga
Pipile jacutinga#Translingual

(South Tupi) jacutinga (Pipile jacutinga)


pitaûã

Nheengatu: pitawã

desctree

→ Brazilian Portuguese: pitanguá
→ English: pitangua

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *pɨtawari.

etymon

The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:

boat-billed flycatcher (Megarynchus pitangua)


pitangûagûasu

Nheengatu: pitawãwasú

→ Brazilian Portuguese: pitanguá-açu


karakará

Nheengatu: karakará

Brazilian Portuguese: carcará, caracará

southern crested caracara
southern crested caracara

Caracara plancus
Caracara plancus#Translingual

caracara. Further details are uncertain. Possibilities include:

southern crested caracara (Caracara plancus)

Caracara cheriway
Caracara cheriway#Translingual

northern crested caracara (Caracara cheriway)

Gabriel Soares de Sousa (1587) chapter LXXXV, in Noticia do Brasil (overall work in Portuguese), Salvador; republished as Francisco Adolpho de Varnhagen, editor, Tratado descriptivo do Brazil em 1587, Rio de Janeiro: Laemmert, 1851, page 232: “Carácará [Karakará]”

Milvago chimachima
Milvago chimachima#Translingual

Claude d'Abbeville (1614) chapter XXXIX, in Hiſtoire de la Miſsion des Peres Capucins en L’Iſle de Maragnan et terres circonuoiſines [History of the Mission of the Capuchin Fathers in the Island of Maranhão and surrounding lands] (overall work in French), Paris: Imprimerie de François Huby, page 233: “Karakara [Karakará]”

Ambrósio Fernandes Brandão (1618) “Dialogo quinto”, in Diálogos das Grandezas do Brasil [Dialogues of Brazil's Greatnesses]; republished as João Capistrano de Abreu, Rodolpho Garcia, compilers, Rio de Janeiro: Officina Industrial Graphica, 1930, page 223: “guará-guará [gûaragûará]”

anonymous author (1622) “Francelho”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica (overall work in Portuguese), Piratininga; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, volume 1, São Paulo: USP, 1953, page 143: “Carâcarâ [Karakará]”


sokó

Nheengatu: sukú

→ Brazilian Portuguese: socó

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *soko.

Tigrisoma lineatum
Tigrisoma lineatum#Translingual

heron. Further details are uncertain. Possibilities include:

rufescent tiger heron (Tigrisoma lineatum)